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Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Rafinesque, C. S. (1818). Discoveries in natural history, made during a journey through the western region of the United States. The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 3(5): 354–356. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=222

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Bivalvia
order
Unionida
family
Unionidae
genus
Potamilus

Name

Synonyms
Lasmonos Rafinesque, 1831
Lastena Rafinesque, 1820
Leptodea Rafinesque, 1820
Limnadea Agassiz, 1846
Lymnadea
Lymnadia G.B.Sowerby II, 1839
Metaptera Rafinesque, 1820
Monelagmus Agassiz, 1846
Monelasmus Agassiz, 1846
Naidea Swainson, 1840
Paraptera Ortmann, 1911
Pareptera Ortmann, 1911
Potamila Rafinesque, 1820
Proptera Rafinesque, 1819
Stenelasma Herrmannsen, 1849
Symphinota Villa, 1841
Symphonota Berge, 1847
Symphynota I.Lea, 1829
Homonyms
Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818

Bibliographic References

  1. Amer. mon. Mag., 3 (4)
  2. Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx .
  3. Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx .
  4. CoL 2006
  5. Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings, 2021: A 'big data' approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 87, no. 1. 1-36.
  6. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1665 Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): not suppressed.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49, 81-82 (1992)
  7. InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
  8. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  9. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  10. Rafinesque, C.S. (1818). Discoveries in natural history, made during a journey through the western region of the United States. <em>The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review.</em> 3(5): 354-356.
  11. Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526.
  12. Williams, J. D., Bogan, A. E. & Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. <em>University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.</em> 908 pp.
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